Repository for Design 1997 2
Compriler-Aided Design. Vol. 29, No. 12. pp. 895-905, 1997 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in Great Britain PII: SOOlO-4485(97)00028.6 0010.4485/97/$17.00+0.00 Research Report A repository for design, process planning and assembly William C Regli*t and Daniel M Gaines* for collaboration, allowing, researchers to post challenge This paper provides an introduction to the Design, Planning and problems to a wide audience, share results, or perform Assembly Repository available through the National Institute of larger-scale experiments requiring bigger data sets with Standards and Technology (NIST). The goal of the Repository is to industrially relevant data. It is our belief that establishment provide a publically accessible collection of 2D and 3D CAD and of this Internet-enabled communal library will hasten solid models from industry problems. In this way, research and advances in solid modeling and application areas such as development efforts can obtain and share examples, focus on manufacturing process planning, feature recognition, and benchmarks, and identify areas of research need. The Repository is assembly planning. available through the World Wide Web at URL http : / / The paper is organized as follows: Section 2 overviews www.parts.nist.gov/parts. Publishedby Elsevierkience the current status and content of the Repository, describing Ltd the manufacturing domains it covers and giving a number of examples. Section 3 discusses research issues that either Keywords: solid modeling, CAD, feature recognition, feature- emerged during development and population of the based manufacturing, manufacturing process planning, Repository and outlines some of the new problems which assembly planning can be addressed based on the Repository’s contents.
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